Improvement in composition burial-cases



Cdidnt ittzt @tutti @da vFREDERIC W. BROWN. on ALBAN-Y, ,.NEWYORK,...

LettelsPatent No.` 113,138, datedMaroh 28, 1871.

lIMPRQlIEMAENT IN COMPOSITIQN BURIAL-CASES.

i The Schedule'referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

p, site form whilein a plastic state, and uniting tlieparts after receiving the corpse with a cement of thesame material, the hardening of which renders the case homogeneous throughout.

For this purpose I employ t he material known as Frear stone, patented February 4, 1868, No..73, 965, which is an artificial compound-resembling stone, formed by the mixture of silex, alumina, lime, or other minerals, with an aqueous solution of gum shellao, molded and subjected to pressure or percussion. This composition rapidly hardens and becomes impervious to air and moisture.

Figure 1 represents a side view of my improved burial-case. y

Figure 2, a plan view oi' the interior with cover removed.

Figure 3, a plan view ofthe cover.

Figure 4, an end view.

Figure 5, a transverse section.

Figure 6, a longitudinal section.

I construct the burial ease, by preference, in two parts, the case proper, as shown in iig. 2, and the cover, iig. 3, separately. These mayA have any form andstyle of ornamentation deemed desirable.

The bottom is, preferably, provided with the ribbed projections A A to enable the lowering -cords to be withdrawn.

After the coin has been deposited in the case a l layer of the composition of which the case. is made, is applied eveulyto the topedge. Upon this the cover is laid, and suiicient force or pressure employed to insure perfect adhesion of the cement to the proximate surfaces of the two portions, and when sufficient time has elapsed for the hardening of the cementinglayer the body of the case and its cover will have become perfectly united and homogeneous, as if moldedat one process.

The interment may immediatelysucceed the cementing'.of the cover, the induration proceeding as well under ground as above. The case formed is perfeotly hermetic, and the material. admits of any d'egree of finish and ornamentation desired.

I claim- As a new article of manufacture, a burial case, formed of the material and in the manner substantially as set forth.

FRED.- W. BROWN.

Witnesses:

J. W. GANTWELL, GHsVL. GARFIELD. 

